The wildfires in Montecito, California forced Ed Naha, a former Starlog editor, out of his house. An Associated Press story about evacuees quoted him:

Meanwhile, about 200 people spent the night at an evacuation center at a high school in nearby Goleta, but rest was out of the question for Ed Naha, a 58-year-old writer who lives in the hills above Santa Barbara.

“I don’t think we are going to have the house when we go back,” Naha said.

“We are used to seeing smoke because we do have fires up here, but I’ve never seen that reddish, hellish glow that close,” he said. “I was waiting for Dante and Virgil to show up.”

[Thanks to David Klaus for the story.]